Activate overprint fill to selection / objects / swatches with script.

Question

Hi community, I don't really have a code to show for this, but I was trying to find out how to set the overprint fill attribute to my object/selection/swatches, I wrote it like this because I am not sure how does it work, all I know is that to activate overprint filll for text frames is:

text.textRange.characterAttributes.overprintFill = true;

Can anyone help me out with that? Thank you.

(P.s.: I did look at the documentation for scripting but all I found is overprint for pdf files something like that)

m1b · Accepted Answer

You might need some more code to handle CompoundPathItems and GroupItems. For example

if (doc.selection[i].constructor.name == 'CompoundPathItem')
     doc.selection[i].pathItems[0].fillOverprint = true;

And GroupItems have pageItems, so you can do another loop over the group's pathItems and set each of their fillOverprints too.

- Mark

AntonioPacheco · Answer

Hi! I made this:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var layers = doc.layers;
doc.artboards.setActiveArtboardIndex(0);
layers.hasSelectedArtwork = true;
for(var i=0; i < doc.selection.length; i++){
doc.selection[i].fillOverprint = true;
}

and in fact it activates the fill overprint attributes, I just don't know why somethines it does not activate for compound path items, but so far... this works! Hope it helps.

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